Re: packed structures

[Gé Weijers <ge@...>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 9:40 AM Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

As a very fast check, I simply changed the following line in lobject.h:

-typedef struct TValue {
+typedef struct __attribute__((packed)) TValue {
   TValuefields;
 } TValue;

[...] 

It would be good to know how this change works in other architectures.

-- Roberto

It seems to work just fine on Apple's M1 SOC (ARM 64 bit).

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Gé